Description
Neue JZ (Neue Illustrierte Zeitung) – Number 35, 2 September 1941
Scanned pages: 22 (last page missing) | Instant PDF download
Historical German illustrated weekly magazine (Berlin, 17th year), digitized.
Cover
A naval Oberstabsarzt examines an X-ray at a wounded sailor’s bedside in a battleship’s sickbay („Ein Seemann kommt ins Marinelazarett”), with the headline „Mein Vater war General und das genügte!”. Photo: PK-Schobert (Weltbild).
Main Articles
„Ein Bauernerlebnis in der Sowjet-Union”
A village resident on the Eastern Front recounts hunger, imprisonment and abuse under Soviet rule before being freed by the German advance, alongside photos of burned villages under the banner „Mord, Brand, Plünderung” and a reproduced missing-persons notice page from the „Deutsche Zeitung im Ostland”.
Photos: PK-Etzold (Weltbild), PK-Müller (P. J. Hoffmann), PK-Brunnengräber (P. J. Hoffmann).
„Mehr als elftausend Sowjetmaschinen wurden bis jetzt im Osten vernichtet”
Photo of German soldiers inspecting the burning wreck of a Soviet bomber brought down by flak.
Photo: PK-Rodhan (Weltbild).
„Bei der stürmenden Truppe — die Sanitätssoldaten”
Photo of a medic crawling under fire to bandage a wounded lieutenant (platoon leader) in the field.
Photo: PK-Henisch (P. J. Hoffmann).
„Ein Seemann kommt ins Marine-Lazarett”
Report following a wounded sailor, Matrosenobergefreiter Herbert Schulze, from the hospital train to Germany’s largest naval hospital, describing its modern facilities, staff, rehabilitation sport and the Narvik veterans among the patients.
Author: Kriegsberichter J. H. Eichen; photos: PK-Eichen (Atlantic).
„Mein Vater war General und das genügte…”
Serialized “factual report” of a former Tsarist army captain’s memories of 1917 Petrograd, covering Kerensky’s Provisional Government, the Bolshevik uprising and the defence of the Winter Palace, written in strongly antisemitic propaganda framing (to be continued).
Author not named; photos: Scherl, Neue JZ-Archiv.
„Hochzeit in Singapur”
Fourth instalment of a serialized novel about Christa Ellmann, a sunken jewel hoard, a salvage engineer and the British Secret Service in Singapore.
Author: Alexander von Thayer.
„Heitereteien – juristisch betrachtet”
Two humorous anecdotes („Der Fluch der Zigeunerin”, „Das billige Fahrrad”) examined as legal puzzles about paternity and a gifted bicycle.
Illustrations: S. Lutugin.
„Der entthronte Laubfrosch”
Popular-science piece arguing that spiders, insects, fish, birds, livestock, cats and dogs are better weather prophets than the proverbial tree frog.
Author: W. Bu.
„Sonntag und Montag müssen Brüder sein”
Cultural-history causerie on the origins of the “blauer Montag” tradition among craftsmen and journeymen.
Author: Anselm Schmitt.
„Sind die Fenster schuld?”
Short health article on how ordinary window glass blocks the beneficial ultraviolet portion of sunlight.
No author credited.
„Natürlich wissen SIE das”
General-knowledge quiz explaining tar vs. pitch, the hyphenation of “Hamburg-Amerika-Linie” and the meaning of a “Danaergeschenk”.
No author credited.
„Für helle Köpfchen”
Puzzle page with crossword, syllable puzzle, equation and number-square riddles.
No author credited.
„Schach”
Chess column presenting a 1925 endgame study found to be flawed, with a note on the Grossdeutsche chess championship in Bad Oeynhausen.
Column editor: Kurt Richter; study by J. Moravec; photo of player Klaus Junge: Hohmann.
„Skat”
Skat card problem with solution, alongside a literary riddle and solutions to the puzzles of issue No. 34.
No author credited.
„Das einsame Plätzchen”
Four-panel cartoon about a secret mushroom-picking spot, plus a page of short jokes.
Drawings: S. Lutugin.
„Mückenstiche”
Full-page humorous cartoon spread about a summer Sunday plagued by mosquitoes.
Drawings: S. Lutugin.
Artists Mentioned
- Lutugin – cartoon drawings „Das einsame Plätzchen”, „Mückenstiche” and the illustrations to „Heitereteien – juristisch betrachtet”
- Deventer – signed artwork for the Franck Grieß coffee advertisement
- Binder – signed artwork for the Combustin advertisement
War Correspondents (Kriegsberichter) Named
- Kriegsberichter J. H. Eichen (PK-Eichen, Atlantic)
- PK-Schobert (Weltbild)
- PK-Etzold (Weltbild)
- PK-Müller (P. J. Hoffmann)
- PK-Brunnengräber (P. J. Hoffmann)
- PK-Rodhan (Weltbild)
- PK-Henisch (P. J. Hoffmann)